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Word: uncertainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writings that his father must have been a drunken, menacing brute. (Interviews in the 1950s with neighbors of the Hitler family substantiated this professional hunch, Historian Waite reports.) Because children view the universe in the light of their home experience, Hitler probably saw the whole world as "extremely dangerous, uncertain and unjust." This was the origin of his sense of powerlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Two Hitlers | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...Vasectomy does not revolutionize sex. Patients who understand that sterilization is not castration feel no sense of loss upon becoming sterile and generally find their sex lives unimpaired and occasionally improved by the procedure. But impotence has occurred in those who were, knowingly or not, uncertain of their masculinity before vasectomy, while patients who submit to the surgery believing that it will strengthen a shaky marriage are invariably disappointed. Helen Wolfers, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studied 95 men who had undergone vasectomies and found that ten had sexual problems following the operation. Interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Questions on Vasectomy | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

This is a movie about a boy who falls out of a tree. It touches, in addition, on such evergreen themes as coming of age, loss of innocence and passage into uncertain manhood. Such an undertaking represents a narrowing in scope for Larry Peerce, whose previous effort, The Sporting Club, dramatized the decline of the West. In symbolic terms, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: School Ties | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Campus activism began simmering on several fronts this week although the prospect that it will reach a full boil this year is as yet uncertain...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Grad Students and PALC Set Up Shop | 9/30/1972 | See Source »

Because of the lack of evidence. Maillet is uncertain when he will be able to make an arrest. To keep track of the suspect, however. Maillet's informants are watching her to make certain she does not try to leave the Boston area...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: The Boston Police Find a Suspect in Dean's Murder | 9/30/1972 | See Source »

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